The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-03-31
The Dead Lawyers.

a In the matter of the Memorial and Res
: olutions of the Bar Association of Jack
: son, Jackson County, Ohio, ON the death
v of ELIHU JOHNSON and DAVIS MACKLEY
Be it remembered that John Z. Moore
, Esq. President of the Bar Association of
, Jackson Ohio. appeared as such on behalf
of said association, and moved the Court
. to receive and order placed on the files of
3 the Court memorials and resolutions
drawn up and passed by said Bar Associa-
tion, and on consideration whereof it is
j., ordered that the same be placed on the
files of the Court and spread upon the
, journals thereof at length as requested.
ELIHU JOHNSON was born in North
: Carolina, June 2Sth 1898, being the ninth
of ten children of Adam johnson and
Christiana nee Thompson. His early life
was spent on a farm in his native state,
and at the age of twenty, owing to i'm
paired health, he was compelled to travel,
and visited friends in Kentucky and Ohio
He was educated at Mechlenburg Acade-
my. His first occupation after leaving
home was in Cincinnati Ohio, where he
taught penmanship, and afterwards wrote
in the Clerks Office of Hamilton County.
He then turned his attention to the Law
and read in the Office of Galley and Gil
bert of Cincinnati. He was admitted at
the same examination with Hon. William
Allen, in 1926. In 1929 he settled in Jack
son, whdere he continued to practice till
age and failing health prevented.
He was Prosecuting Attorney of Jack
nfy for
twice elected a Representative to the
General Assembly of Ohio.
He was always Democrat in politics.
He was baptized and reared in the Pres
| byterian faith although not member of
any Church.
In Nov 1884 he married Roanna Rath-
burn by whom he had six children, three
OF whom are living in Jackson, Mrs. Jas.
Chestnut, Mrs. Lucretia Simpson, and
Miss Julia Johnson. His widow survives
him, at an advanced age.
Mr.. johnson was man of large frame.
and when fully aroused was man of
strong mental characteristics and a for
midable antagonist in a law suit. He
never became reconcfled to our present
Code of Procedure.
Resoloed, That we tender our sympathy
to the widow and family of the deceased;
and that we spread this report upon the |
Journal of this Court in token of respect |
to his memory.
DAVIS MACKLEY was born in Gallia |
County Ohio, December 11th, 1918, and |
died in Jackson March 10th, 1887 His |
father moved to Jackson County when |
the son was two years old.
The next twenty-seven years was spent |
on his fathers farm near Oak Hill, and |
after living few years in Oak Hill, in
1855, when he moved to Jackson where |
he lived his life out. eread law in 1s45
with Col. T. r. Stanley, and was admitted |
to the Bar Nov 18th 1s49.
Mr.. Mackley was law partner of r. C.
Hoffman from 1857 to 1S6O
w. A. Walden was also member of
this firm in 1859 and 1860. Mr. Mackley
was Prosecuting Attorney from 1856 to
1851; was Mayor of Jackson in 1857;
school examiner from 1867 to 1869; assist
ant assessor of Internal Revenue from
1862 to 1866.
Mr.. Mackley took an active, earnest in
|
Whig, and then Republican. In 1858
he became editor of the Jackson Standard
in connection with Judge Tripp, and in
1861 he bought the entire office and was
from that time the chief editor so long as
his health permitted. He was married to
Mary Steece In 1912 and by her had seven
children of whom four are yet living.
His first wife died in 1856, and he was
married in 1858 to Mrs Eliza Hawk, who
survives him.
From the purchase of the Standard
office he began to drop his law practice,
and for the last twenty years he has paid
but little attention to law business. The
children who survive him are Mrs. Octa-
via Hawk, wife of Samuel Hawk of Jack
son, Mrs. Allie Rhodes, wife of Charles
Rhodes, who is now at Washington D. c.,
John III. Mackley, his successor in the
STANDARD, and David L. Mackley, residents
of Jackson.
Mr. Mackley was fearless and an hon
est man; man of strong convictions,
and direct and earnest in their expression;
yet of quick and ready sympathy. His
feelings led him sometimes to confound
the doctrine with the man who believed
it, and therefore to say harsh things of a
man through his feelings on subject.
He was asked once to write sketch of
himself and he said of himself Il have
been somewhat intolerant to my political
opponents, but have hosts of friends.
and but very few enemies
Resolced;; By the Members of the Bar
of Jackson County, Ohio, that in the
death of DAVIS MACKLEY we have lost
an honest man, man of sincere and hon
est convictions, man of public spirit,
and one who in years gone by has given
and taken the blows Of legal strife in good
spirit with the older members of this Bar;
and one who although having dropped out
of the active ranks Of the profession, still
felt an earnest kindly interest in the
younger members.
We feel that in his death, one of the
landmarks of Jackson County is gone,
and man is gone whose place may not
be filled.
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